github/markup

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

6045 stars · 3375 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

github-markup is a Ruby library that determines which markup library to use to convert content files like READMEs into HTML, supporting formats such as Markdown, Textile, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, and MediaWiki. It is the first step of GitHub's rendering pipeline, delegating sanitization and syntax highlighting to downstream consumers.

Use cases

• render readme files to html
• convert markdown and other markup formats to html in ruby
• detect markup format from file extension
• build a documentation rendering pipeline
• render rst asciidoc textile and mediawiki files
• replicate github's markup rendering locally

When to choose

• you need to render many markup formats through a single ruby api
• you want format detection consistent with github's rendering
• you are building a documentation or content pipeline in ruby

When to avoid

• you only need markdown rendering, where a dedicated markdown library is simpler
• you need html sanitization or syntax highlighting, which this library does not do
• you are not working in ruby

Facets

library · maturity active

parser templating documentation markdown documentation developer-tools web-development ruby jvm markup-rendering readme html-conversion github

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="github/markup")